pyspark.sql.functions.levenshtein

pyspark.sql.functions.levenshtein(left, right)

Computes the Levenshtein distance of the two given strings.

New in version 1.5.0.

Examples

>>> df0 = spark.createDataFrame([('kitten', 'sitting',)], ['l', 'r'])
>>> df0.select(levenshtein('l', 'r').alias('d')).collect()
[Row(d=3)]

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